Grayswood, Surrey
Grayswood photos
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Grayswood maps
Historic maps of Grayswood and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Grayswood maps
Grayswood books
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Memories of Grayswood
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Surrey memories
9 months of my life spent here
I was a boy sargeant soldier at Arborfield AAS when I came down with a serious illness and rushed into Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot and when I defied the odds and lived , it was discovered that I had pulmonary TB of the right lung. I was transferred to Connaught Military Sanatorium at Hindhead ,Surrey which I believe is the hospital... [more]
Shared on 28 November 2007
As a child living in Chidd during the war we had freedom to roam anywhere we wished, ie Sidenhurst lakes (where I caught my first carp), the brooks where we fished for tiddlers which we cooked over a camp fire, climbed trees and made camps. Girls and boys played and swam together down the Lagg's in water so muddy it was... [more]
Shared on 21 February 2008
GREW UP IN CHIDD IN THE 50-60'S. HAPPY MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD DAYS'
STILL "HOME" TO ME.. THOUGH NO LONGER LIVING THERE
Shared on 10 February 2007
I lived in Deepcut from 1951 to 1959 in Ceylon Terrace, Blackdown Camp as a child in the army married quarters My father had just been posted back to the UK after serving in Germany.
There were about eight blocks of terrace houses, each were given name like Bermuda, Ceylon, Cyprus and so on. I can't remember all the names.
Shared on 26 December 2008
i done three months training in almer barracks blackdown concrete building in march 1953 i remember a sergeant swanson but not much more there was a camp picture house i remember watching james cagney in the roaring twenties we also go atrain down to london from i think it was brookwood station and spent a night in the union jack club... [more]
Shared on 06 January 2008
Blackdown Camp (possibly Victoria Road)
These army quarters were demolished in the 1980s or 1990s and are in Blackdown Camp (near Deepcut and now part of Deepcut).
Shared on 26 November 2007
I lived in the second cottage in from about 1984-1990 when both my parents worked at King Edward's School, my mum as a nurse in the San and my dad as a plumber in the boiler houses. I had an idyllic childhood here and used to play in the woods opposite and climb trees in the fields behind. Is the school... [more]
Shared on 14 August 2008
WORKED AT KING EDWARDS SCHOOL FOR TEN YEARS IN THE 1960'S
GREAT YEARS
Shared on 10 February 2007
Extracts From Grayswood & Surrey books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Grayswood, inspired by Frith photos.
Godalming Town and City Memories
Three of Church Street's five pubs are in this photo - the Corn Meter extreme left, the Star centre left, and the Live and Let Live just beyond the archway on the right. The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street. ... [more]
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Godalming Town and City Memories
In Edwardian days cyclists frequented Godalming, especially at weekends. There was a demand for teashops, and Church Street had three - one is on the left here. Also very popular was the sending of picture postcards, which served people much as the telephone does today - Eatons paper shop, on the left, claimed to have the largest selection.
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Godalming Town and City Memories
During the coaching era the need to re-shoe horses must have made the blacksmith essential. The forge in Godalming was situated very centrally, in Pound Lane, where Record Corner is now. In the 1860s the smith added to his business by opening a beerhouse, appropriately named the Three Horseshoes, next to the forge. Also nearby was a whitesmith, Mr H Lewer who was also a gasfitter and... [more]
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